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The Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing is a British literary award presented for the best radical book published each year, with radical book defined as one that is "informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist and anti-racist concerns" – in other words, ideologically left books. The award believes itself to be the UK's only left-wing only book prize. Books must be written, or largely written by authors or editors normally living in the UK, or international books available for purchase in the UK. Winning authors receive £1,000. The Bread and Roses Award is sponsored by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers and has no corporate sponsorship.
Bread and Roses is a phrase from the Bread and Roses strike of 1912 among textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. In a song – Bread and Roses – commemorating the event, the strikers supposedly struck "for bread, and for roses too."
The inaugural prize was announced 1 May 2012, on International Workers Day, at the Bread and Roses pub in Clapham, London.
Winners and shortlists
2012 David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 YearsTim Gee, Counterpower: Making Change Happen
Nadia Idle and Alex Nunns (editors), Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt’s Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made It
Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
Andy Merrifield, Magical Marxism
Laurie Penny, Penny Red: Notes from the New Age of Dissent
Nicholas Shaxson, Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
2013 Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural MigrantsFederico Campagna and Emanuele Campiglio (editors), What We Are Fighting For: A Radical Collective Manifesto
Danny Dorling, No-Nonsense Guide to Equality
Donny Gluckstein, A People's History of the Second World War: Resistance Versus Empire
Eveline Lubbers, Secret Manoeuvres in the Dark: Corporate and Police Spying on Activists
Paul Mason, Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
Daniel Poyner (editor), Autonomy: The cover designs of Anarchy 1961–1970
Dan Swain, Alienation: An Introduction to Marx’s Theory
2014 Joe Glenton, Soldier Box: Why I Won’t Return to the War on TerrorRob Evans and Paul Lewis, Undercover: The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
Barry Kushner and Saville Kushner, Who Needs the Cuts?: Myths of the Economic Crisis
Katharine Quarmby, No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies and Travellers
Andrew Simms, Cancel the Apocalypse: The New Path to Prosperity
Imogen Tyler, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain
2015 Helena Earnshaw and Angharad Penrhyn Jones, Here We Stand: Women Changing The WorldHa-Joon Chang, Economics: The User’s Guide
Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen and Nawara Mahfoud, Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
Tansy E. Hoskins, Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
Francesca Martinez, What the **** is Normal?!
James Meek, Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else
Lara Pawson, In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre
2016 Jeremy Seabrook, The Song of the Shirt: The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to BangladeshPhil Chamberlain and Dave Smith, Blacklisted: The Secret War Between Big Business and Union Activists
Kate Evans, Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Mel Evans, Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts
Rhian E. Jones, Petticoat Heroes: Gender, Culture and Popular Protest in the Rebecca Riots
Katrine Marçal, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? A Story About Women and Economics
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